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Luckless is the country in which the symbols of procreation are the objects of shame, while the agents of destruction are honored! And yet you call that member your pudendum, or shameful part, as if there were anything more glorious than creating life, or anything more atrocious than taking it away.

Cyrano de Bergerac

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Cyrano de Bergerac
Age: 36 †
Born: 1619
Born: March 6
Died: 1655
Died: July 28
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